Medical Field in India

!Ol my Medical n NonMedical frnz do read this one! The most irritating thing about working in Hospitals is 'Visiting Hours' I really dont understand why ppl come to visit patients in Hospitals! Hardly 5% people coming r really concerned about their health n r thinking how they can b helpful to the patients in real sense! Rest 95% ppl do come for x y z reasons which indian tradition is set for! Either bcz just they r free, curious to know what's happening, sharing their irrelevant n expert experiences n knowledge with everyone patient n relatives n doctors, some r coming just to c billing n other facilities so tht they cn give judgement abt hospital which they have never known about or just to Ask Stupid questions n irritate ppl around! Eventually these so called well wishers spoil the case in many ways. Sometimes people come and ask for a patient but they dont even know him / her by name neither they have numbers but still insist on meeting!! This Tradition should

As the days are passing by, I realized that there are so many notions and misbeliefs about ICU, specially in our country, prevailing in society and non medical persons' minds, leading to mistrust and miscommunication between Doctors and Patients' relatives and those so-called well wishers with extra ordinary knowledge - about these concepts which are more of misconceptions, always eager to share their expert opinions. Few most common of them are, 'Patient is dead already and is kept on ventilator for monitory gains by doctor / hospital' 'Patient once kept on ventilator will never come out of ICU' 'Patient can not die and would not be declared dead because ventilator is On and is running the whole body' Here I would like to clarify few of these things, not useful for medicos of course, who are already knowing the facts and simplest fact that, dead body can not be kept in ICU on any number of machines, ventilator only supports your lungs and